My discourse-setup is failing on a Ubuntu 22.04 VPS with the following error: fatal: unable to access https://github.com/discourse/discourse.git/: Could not resolve host: github.com My VPS has only an IPv6 address, but I’m using Dan Win’s github IPv6 proxy: I can ping github.com, I successfully cloned discourse_docker.git, and I can clone the exact same discourse.git from the command line on the same VPS. But when the same command is executed by discourse-setup, it cannot resolve github.com and fails. A previous post recommended setting mtu=1400 in my docker.service file, which I did, but it didn’t change anything. I first assumed this was an IPv6 problem, but the fact that my VPS can access github and clone the package has me confused… I don’t know what the setup is doing differently. I wish there were some way to tell discourse-setup that github.git is already on the server or just to use the server’s default settings that worked.

I’ve hit issues with Docker on IPv6 only systems in the past related to the lack of NAT, since Docker often uses IP addresses that are only accessible from the host but NAT is not automatically configured by Docker for IPv6. This repo’s readme describes that problem more fully: GitHub - robbertkl/docker-ipv6nat: Extend Docker with IPv6 NAT, similar to IPv4 · GitHub

[image] nottoobright: first assumed this was an IPv6 problem, but the fact that my VPS can access github and clone the package has me confused… I’m guessing that docker isn’t configured for IPv6

Yep, you guys nailed it - it was indeed a v6 problem because Docker doesn’t like v6. Added a v4 address to the VPS and everything worked. Thanks

[image] Dave McClure: I’ve hit issues with Docker on IPv6 only systems in the past related to the lack of NAT, I heard that there is a Really Big Discourse hosting company that makes extensive use of IPv6 in their infrastructure. But NAT sounds like a likely issue. I’ll keep that in mind next time I muck about with IPv6.

IPv6 Git clone fails in discourse-setup, but works on the machine?!?

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) September 30, 2023, 11:34am 2

I’m guessing that docker isn’t configured for IPv6

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